Preliminary data shows roughly 97,000 fatal overdoses over a 12-month period. That's down roughly 14.5% from a year earlier. Public health officials say the drop translates into more than 16,000 lives saved and marks the lowest level of drug deaths in nearly four years. (Mann, NPR)
Read MoreHundreds of posters depicting several Jewish faculty members as "wanted" were spread across the University of Rochester campus in upstate New York over the weekend, university officials said. (Marbury & Nguyen, USA Today)
Read MoreMultiplying the power of pop celebrity for a good cause, Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid was recorded on November 25, 1984, and released just two weeks later. It became a runaway sensation, a number one single for three weeks that raised £8 million in its first year towards combating famine in Ethiopia. (McCormick, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe now-infamous congressional hearing was one filled with sensational claims about UFOs. Despite the government's rebranding of UFOs with a less-stigmatized acronym – unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP – the hearing still captivated a public long obsessed with ideas of flying saucers and little green men. (Lagatta, USA Today)
Read MoreThe film Heretic, directed by screenwriting duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, explores the plausibility of this kind of freeing faith. Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) has entrapped two young Latter-day Saint missionaries, Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) in his home. (Marchbanks, Christianity Today)
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Read MoreJustin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, has stepped down following an investigation that concluded he failed to report serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps to authorities promptly upon learning of it. Welby expressed a "profound sense of shame" over "the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England." (Henderson & Carroll, Newsweek)
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